City of Westminster Coroners:
Coroners' Inquests into Suspicious Deaths
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7th January 1783 - 30th December 1783

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Image 34 of 61829th January 1783


Crispin Barret< no role > at Mr. Nocus in Green street
Leicester fields on his Oath saith That Yesterday
Morning Mr. Mason and another Man Come
to Mr. Nocus about Eight o'clock saying
that they had taken the Deced out of the
Serpentine River in Hyde Park and laid
him on the Shore by the side of the River
upon which Dept. went there and saw the
Deced lying on the Shore Drowned appearing to
have been a long him in the River
says that he found in the Deced's Breahing
Pocket two Guineas two hald Guineas told
four Shillings and six pence in silver
says that he observed no marks of
violence upon the Deced
The Markof [mark]
Cripin Barret< no role >

Severally Sworn the
Day Year & Place above
mentioned before me
Tho Prickard< no role > Coroner .}




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